Europe Slovenia The modernisation of a 26-kilometre railway section between Zidani Most and Celje in eastern Slovenia has been declared complete; the project cost 230 million euro, which is about 50 million euro less than the initial cost estimate
Europe Slovenia A violence-awareness haunted house has been set up in Ljubljana's city square and will remain open until today; visitors can experience first-hand the fear that victims of violence are constantly confronted with
Europe Slovenia Slovenian freediver Alenka Artnik has set a new world record in the double fin discipline at a competition in Turkey; in July she had set a new world record in the constant weight discipline at 122m
Europe Slovenia Last year, the average person threw away 68kg of food, 1kg more than in 2019, of which 40% was still edible; households and the food trade generated more food waste, while food production and the catering and food service industries generated less
Europe Slovenia An exhibition of works by Zoran Mušič, the most internationally recognised artist of Slovenian origin, has opened at the Maribor Art Gallery
Europe Slovenia Fish catches in 2020, exceeding 155 tonnes, increased for the first time in five years, registering an increase of 29% on 2019
Europe Slovenia Efforts to rejuvenate the lynx population in the northwestern region of Gorenjska have been successful: the first cubs were born after five lynx were released into the wild by Life Lynx project
Europe Slovenia 130 brown bears have been shot so far this year, of which 121 have been hunted on the basis of Environment Agency permits and nine have been found dead
Europe Slovenia With his play Gejm, Slovenian director Ziga Divjak has given voice to abused migrants and refugees; numerous reports and newspaper articles denounce alleged police violence in the treatment of those who take the so-called Balkan route to Western Europe
Europe Slovenia A team of Slovenian researchers has created software that helps scientists analyse the content of microbiomes, the communities of microorganisms that live in the human gut, in order to detect specific pathways that may indicate the presence of a disease
Europe Slovenia An overwhelming majority of 86% has rejected in a referendum legislative changes proposed by the government that environmentalists say would pave the way for construction projects in the sea, lakes and rivers that would threaten the environment